Jeroen de Jong (born 1972) graduated in business economics at Erasmus School of Economics in Rotterdam. He received his PH.D in organizational behavior at the University of Amsterdam on “individual innovation: the connection between leadership and employees innovative work behavior”.

Jeroen has worked as a research assistant at the Tinbergen Institute at ESE, and for more than ten years at EIM Business and Policy Research, a research institute specialized in small business and entrepreneurship. He is currently an Associate Professor in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at Rotterdam School of Management (RSM).

At RSM Jeroen is academic director of the MSc program in Entrepreneurship & New Business Venturing. He is also teaching in the part-time MSc in business administration, coordinating two courses on “New Business, Innovation and Entrepreneurship”. He is also teaching new master student courses on entrepreneurial bootstrapping and applied research.

Jeroen’s research is concerned with open and distributed forms of innovation, and how these innovations spread across society via peer diffusion, supplier adoption and new venture creation. Other but related research interests include individuals’ entrepreneurial and innovative behaviors, and innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises, including high tech SMEs, innovation collaboration and geography. His current research collaboration partners include the MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA (on user and open innovation), the Telder School of Management in Ottawa, Canada (on innovation in SMEs), and the university of Brighton, United Kingdom (diffusion of user innovations to commercial firms). So far his work has been published in Management Science, MIT Sloan Management Review, Journal of Management, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Research Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, and various book chapters.

Hulsink, W. & Jong, J.P.J. de (2006). Sources of success: Small firms' use of networks to support the development of innovations. In Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research (pp. 351-351). Babson: Babson College.